Summer Carnival
...
He handed me the air-brushed t-shirt
and I thanked him, said I loved it.
He asked, Do you mean that?
I said, What would have possessed me
to utter it otherwise?
Then he kissed me with his ...
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Categories:
leveraging, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Leverage
...It's easy to set the goal, and even put the process in motion, but continuing to push forward through struggles and frustration can require a shove to help draw out that emotional leverage. ~ Le...
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Categories:
leveraging, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
What's Louder than Thunder Yet, Soft As A Whisper's Whisper
...#THIS DEDICATION SPEAKS TO A PARTICULAR INDICATION...
IT SPEAKS TOO...
SPECIFICALLY WHO???
ANYONE WHO STAYS...
UNDERNEATH
COVERS/SHIELDINGS AND YIELDINGS.
SIRENS IN HIGHEST DECIBELS...
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Categories:
leveraging, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Be Amongst Few
...Mediocrity, Excellence two shores
Waves of Efforts connecting shores
Surf on tide, swim against flow of ocean
Be ashore leveraging art of propulsion
Mediocrity, a reality, almost repulsive
...
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Categories:
leveraging, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Mein Kampf Analogous To One Long Run On Unparsed Sentence Fragment
...Mein kampf analogous to one long run on unparsed sentence fragment
Heavily punctuated - hyphen
to embellish poetically
with bracing circumspection,
I markedly exclaim (parenthetically)
cumulat...
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Categories:
leveraging, absence, adventure, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Not So Friendly Discussions
...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio b...
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Categories:
leveraging, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian
Today
...Sadness
Like a blanket of chains
Drags my soul through
The moaning minutes.
Drunken gorillas
Poke their greasy toes
Into my eyeballs
Leveraging my personalities.
Ebbing and flowing
Cr...
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Categories:
leveraging, depression,
Form: Free verse
If Truth Was a Tree and Fell, Will World Listen
...As per change in situations
A struggling sense of ideation
Sensational cackling and breaking—our minds’ sentience
Pulling, expanding the band of our memory
Widening extension of greatest expre...
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Categories:
leveraging, beauty, creation, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Cranberry Injection
...For John Hink
I left your stool in my kitchen corner where you sat, a crooked grin on your weathered face that had seen a hundred sunsets. Fields you tilled by horse-drawn plows now contracted t...
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Categories:
leveraging, absence,
Form: Prose
Antony and Cleopatra
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Egyptian goddess
impetuous and pompous
Cleopatra’s conquests
at history’s bequests
wielded a propensity
for dramatic intensity
She snared the great Marc Antony
lured him into salacious sur...
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Categories:
leveraging, games, longing, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Love Letters
...which words pried the sounds
the rusted hinges of doors long ago shut
then words gave voice to
stringed and percussion suited encouragements
that gave meaning with no translation
each word he s...
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Categories:
leveraging, culture, dedication, encouraging, love,
Form: Lyric
Matthew Scott the Marionette
...Matthew Scott The Marionette...
(Concocting cock and bull poetic pap
promises to approximate bovine rap
worse case scenario..., you will snap
so friend me at funny farm in Trappe
Pennsylvania,...
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Categories:
leveraging, analogy, creation, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Jarheads In a Pickle
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War ain’t a kosher thing
The killing of innocent human beings
was never FDA approved
(From Da Almighty)
Ebenezer fiscals’ hands be closed tighty
to the citizen poor
But they openl...
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Categories:
leveraging, soldier, truth, violence, war,
Form: Narrative
Tommy Wagers Who Ever Dares
...Nascent thought provoking
threads flit to and fro
unseen solitary pinball wizard
cavalierly fiddles indiscriminately
leveraging outcome
silently holistic thought fragments
strewn staccoto sca...
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Categories:
leveraging, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Inimitable Intelligible Invaluable Benjamin Franklin
...notification of fire evacuation
slated to occur
April 12th, 2018 (between the hours
of 9:00 am and 12 pm) did spur
me to validate Google asper,
that direct object heave ving,
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Categories:
leveraging, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse
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